A central symbol of this work is a tree that flourishes in one country's soil, but withers in another's ‘mudswamp.' In another episode in this novel, a character hears a sound he thinks is snoring, only to learn that it it's actually the moaning of a group of prisoners hung from a gallows above a pit of excrement as they bleed to death. The protagonist of this novel is betrayed to (*) Inoue by Kichigiro for three hundred pieces of silver. Accompanied by Francis Garpe, the protagonist of this novel travels to Japan to find his mentor, Christovao
A central symbol of this work is a tree that flourishes in one country's soil, but withers in another's ‘mudswamp.' In another episode in this novel, a character hears a sound he thinks is snoring, only to learn that it it's actually the moaning of a group of prisoners hung from a gallows above a pit of excrement as they bleed to death. The protagonist of this novel is betrayed to (*) Inoue by Kichigiro for three hundred pieces of silver. Accompanied by Francis Garpe, the protagonist of this novel travels to Japan to find his mentor, Christovao Ferreira. At the end of this novel, the protagonist commits fumie by trampling on an image of Christ. For 10 points, name this novel in which the missionary Sebastiao Rodriguez abandons Christianity, a work of Shusaku Endo.
A central symbol of this work is a tree that flourishes in one country's soil, but withers in another's ‘mudswamp.'
{Silence} [or {Chinmoku}]